New-fangled cell phones
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Most everybody has a cell phone. Except Dad, but he doesn't have internet either. He would rather do face-to-face. And I admit there is a lot of merit in that.
So on most of these cellphones, you can get ring tones. Now as I mentioned in an earlier note here, there is the Facebook generation and the non-Facebook generation. By some crossed wires somewhere, I seem to have leaked into the Facebook. I think somebody's kid accidentally a parent onto Facebook, then they put me on, and that was the end of that barrier.
I think the Facebook generation is kind of into ring tones. See, you can have your cell phone ring with some tune, rather than the regular sound. Lots of creativity goes into these ringtones, what with clips from favorite movies, to the beginnings of symphonies, and what all.
I heard a particularly attractive ringtone this morning in a meeting. The piece was very nice to hear, and as the phone was buried deep in a coat pocket, we got to hear pretty much the whole piece. By the time the phone was rescued, the other party hung up.
It would follow that whatever ring tone you get, it should not be so attractive that you want to hear the whole thing to the end, else your friends stop calling and resort to texting you or doing a twitter on your self. Thus, you should choose a ring tone that is not too attractive.
Oh, and apparently these are not exactly free, what with occasional copyright issues involved.
And it seems that there is a practical side to the choice, like maybe you don't want to have the ringtone to be the sound of a massive creaking door opening, like from some long-forgotten radio theater program. Or a siren, for obvious reasons, or the scream from a Hitchcock movie.
This sounds pretty complicated to this simple country boy. Me, my phone ringing sounds like a phone ringing.